The liked the game. It required you to be careful when approaching and attacking (and to upgrade yourself to make the game easier). I also like that the game instantly restarts when the player dies.
However, I experienced some problems and also would like to suggest some ideas for the game:
- Sometimes (later in the game) when I would come across a planet surrounded by bad guys, they wouldn't react to me; they'd just stay in one place and I could pick them off easily. This would also happen with guys that are just randomly out in space. I don't know what causes this to happen.
- Being able to upgrade the home planets and build an army is nice, but later in the game, when the levels get so expansive, your teammates don't travel very far, meaning you have to do most of the work (and by teammates, I mean the blue and yellow guy, as well as the other green guys that accompany you). It would be nice if they would venture out with me or if I can order them to go move to specific places.
- The game can be kind of underwhelming at times since I can just destroy the enemy planets and then take out the remaining ships. Perhaps increase the output of the planets to make the situations more dire.
- Later in the game in the giant levels, perhaps when there are about five enemies left, have an arrow that will guide the player to those ship because it can be pretty annoying to comb through the level to find the last guys.
- Perhaps make more artwork and objects that will help the player differentiate one part of the level from the other. Also, have the objects like the suns burn up enemies who get too close (basically have the environment be more interactive with the player. At least try it out and if it doesn't work, then you can just scrap the idea because I understand it could certainly complicate the mechanics of the game and could create an imbalance of some sort).
- This one isn't a big deal, but what about adding a mute button? Maybe a level select screen as well.
I enjoyed the game (though it placed a lot of stress on my computer with all the enemies) and hope to see more games from you in the future. Good luck!